Indie Dev Moment spotlights games, creators, and trends in the independent development community.
I’ve theorized in the past that some ninety-nine percent of the internet is comprised of lists. People like reading and watching things sequentially, preferably in numerical order. After rigorous testing, I’ve determined that the theory is flawed. Only about eighty-five percent of the internet is lists. The rest is flash games. Hell, you can’t spit without hitting a flash platformer (which is impressive considering they’re intangible.) Even PETA has a flash platformer! Given their ubiquity, it’s no surprise that they’re usually crap.
Touch My Pixel’s Scarygirl, based on artist Nathan Jurevicius' character of the same name, does not look like crap. Indeed, it looks spectacular, sporting the same sort of snappy post-Hannah Barbera motifs you find in a Gendy Tartakovsky cartoon. The titular scary girl’s got a cool pirate (not lame internet pirate) thing going on to boot and it looks she can platform and collect goodies with the genre’s best. Can’t wait to try it out.
Our thanks to Abbatoir Noises 2 for pointing Scarygirl out to us as well as for the kind words they offered yours truly.